Last summer I was credited in two national newspapers for keeping award winning crime writer M.W. Craven out of jail. This was not because of my skills as a solicitor – I’m not one, and Mike was never arrested – but because of advice I gave him about a deadly poison.
Let me explain. I am a chemist and a biologist and I advise other writers on the scientific aspects of crime. I can help authors with the effects of poisons, knocking people out, body disposal, firearms, explosions, DNA and anything scientific related to their plots. I don’t do post-mortems, though, and I hasten to add that my help is